Open Science

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Brian Lehrer was kind enough to invite me onto his show the other day along with Kathleen Fitzpatrick of MediaCommons and Katherine Rowe, guest editor of the ground-breaking openly peer reviewed issue of Shakespeare Quarterly, to discuss digital scholarship, peer review, and open science. Our segment begins at 42:00.

Our friend Victoria Stodden is the lead author on a paper published today in Computing in Science and Engineering summarizing the recommendations of a roundtable we participated in at Yale on data (and code) sharing in (computational) science. Seed’s Joy Moore is an additional author on the paper. To adhere to the scientific method in…

From the New York Times: Now some humanities scholars have begun to challenge the monopoly that peer review has on admission to career-making journals and, as a consequence, to the charmed circle of tenured academe. They argue that in an era of digital media there is a better way to assess the quality of work.…

From the New York Times The key to the Alzheimer’s project was an agreement as ambitious as its goal: not just to raise money, not just to do research on a vast scale, but also to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately, available to anyone with a computer anywhere in the…

I just read that MIT’s ground-breaking OpenCourseWare initiative passed the 2,000-course mark this month. That’s a lot of free lectures, course notes, and videos from some of the best scientific minds of the planet… First announced in 2001, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is an ambitious effort to share MIT’s education resources freely and openly on the…